Category: Cinema
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Universal Flash Storage (UFS): Great idea or 20th Flash format?
A few days ago, it has been released publicly that a new Flash memory card format is arriving. I can see the John “Consumer” Doe thrilled in anticipation of yet another new card format: UFS. I can imagine that it will solve all existing issues with dozens of previously existing -and incompatible- memory cards. This…
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100 Best Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies
Right! This is the ambition of Rotten Tomatoes to present us with the list of the 100 best reviewed Science-Fiction movies.
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HDMI video projector is all curves
The offering of video projectors is evolving quite quickly at this end of the year. I’d like to give only two examples: Today on the walls of Paris metro there is an offer for a less-than-400€ 800×600 2000-lumen 35dB-noise projector. It is even less expensive than a replacement lamp for my own Sony projector. Today…
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Top colors in movie posters
It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.
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YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads
Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…
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News from the P2P front line
It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…